Bengaluru, Jul 3: Karnataka on Friday reported its biggest single day spike of 1,694 new COVID-19 cases, taking the taking the total number of infections in the state to 19,710, the Health department said.
The state also recorded 21 fatalities pushing the number of deaths to 293.
The day also saw 471 patients getting discharged after recovery; even as 201 patients in the state were undergoing treatment in ICU. Of the 1,694 fresh cases reported on Friday, a whopping 994 cases were from Bengaluru Urban alone.
As of July 3 evening, cumulatively 1,9710 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes 293 deaths and 8,805 discharges, the Health department said in its bulletin.
It said, out of 10,608 active cases, 10,407 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and are stable, while 201 are in ICU.
The 21 dead include five from Bengaluru Urban, three each from Chikkaballapura and Kalaburagi, two each from Vijayapura and Shivamogga and one each from Ballari, Hassan, Davangere, Bidar, Raichur and Bengaluru Rural.
Out of 21, fourteen are men between the age 48-87 years, and seven women between 25-75 years.
Those dead include those with the history of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), Influenza-like illness (ILI), inter-state and inter-district travel and cardiac patients.
The contact history of at least four dead people is under tracing.
Out of 1,694 positive cases on Friday, contacts of the majority of the cases are still under tracing.
Among the districts where the new cases were reported, Bengaluru Urban accounted for 994, followed by 97 from Ballari
and Dakshina Kannada, Kalaburagi 72, Tumakuru 57, Bengaluru Rural 44, Dharwad 38, Mysuru 35, Mandya 33, Bidar 28, Chamarajanagara 24, Shivamogga 23, Gadag 19, sixteen each from Udupi and Kodagu, Yadgir 14, thirteen each from Hassan and Belagavi, Kolar 11.
Bengaluru Urban district tops the list of positive cases, with a total of 7,173 infections, followed by Kalaburagi (1,560) and Udupi (1,258). Among discharges, Kalaburagi tops the list with 1,143 followed by Udupi (1,093) and Yadgir (855).
A total of 6,71,934 samples have been tested so far, out of which 18,307 were tested on Friday alone.
So far 6,35,582 samples have been reported as negative, and out of them 16,290 were reported negative on Friday.
Speaking to reporters after inaugurating new police station at Dharmasthala, Mr. Parameshwara appealed to people not to disturb law and order and damage public property in a fit of rage in the wake of the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party worker Raju.
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Use AK-47 to teach humanity to this bloody goons, who are destroying public and private properties....Dear Naren How are u ????? we missed you a lot dear......
It looks like and give the feeling that HindUtva goondas running the home department ! Shame on Home minster.
As Home Minister do not request. Take stringent action against trouble makers. Since all governments r soft towards hindutva groups whatever incident take place society suffers from these culprits. They do not have fear nor public property values. Saffron goondas knows to trouble others. Any murder Police take its own action. You people fight for justice not to damage Innocents.
We need stringent laws against damaging public property.
Useless C.m, Useless H.m & Useless D.k Congress leaders
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